IPL STING

Lucknow: Shalabh Srivastava, the Uttar Pradesh fast bowler who was banned for five years by the BCCI for conspiring to fix a match, has decided to take legal action against the Indian board. According to a report in Mail Today, Srivastava, 31, has sought to move a court of law...

Kanpur: Tainted Uttar Pradesh paceman Shalabh Srivastava feels he hasn't got "justice" after the BCCI slapped a fiveyear ban that means that his career is as good as over.
"I still maintain that I am innocent and I have not got justice. When I spoke to [the] BCCI officials, I told...

Five domestic Indian cricketers TP Sudhindra, Shalabh Srivastava, Mohnish Mishra, Amit Yadav and Abhinav Bali have been banned by the BCCI after being found guilty on charges of corruption in a report submitted by Ravi Sawani. Here's a look at these players, four of whom featured in the...

New Delhi: Former cricketers on Saturday welcomed the BCCI's decision to slap lifeban on TP Sudhindra and varying degrees of sanctions on four other players caught in the IPL spotfixing scandal, saying that anybody found guilty of corruption should be handed deterrent punishment.
Former opener Arun Lal said that no sympathy...

Mumbai: The BCCI's disciplinary committee, headed by its president N Srinivasan, will meet here on Saturday to discuss the report submitted by Ravi Sawani on the corruption allegations against five uncapped Indian players named in a television sting operation last month.
Mohnish Mishra, Shalabh Srivastava, TP Sudhindra, Amit Yadav and Abhinav...

The days of Slapgate and Lalit Modi versus P Chidambaram seem far away, and rather timid compared to the controversies that have surfaced during the fifth season of the Indian Premier League. In a week that's resembled something like the midpoint of the French Revolution, we've had a sting operation...

Lalit Modi, the former Indian Premier League chairman, spoke to CNNIBN EditorinChief Rajdeep Sardesai on matters of underhand dealings in the lucrative Twenty20 tournament. Read the transcript below.
Rajdeep Sardesai: Appreciate your joining us Mr Modi. There are those your critics in particular who say the ills of...

Former India swing bowler Balwinder Singh Sandhu reckons that the nonpayment of dues from the nowdefunct Indian Cricket League (ICL) is perhaps responsible for the latest Indian Premier League (IPL) controversy emerging from the sting operation conducted by India TV.
Four of the five players Shalabh Srivastava, Mohnish Mishra, TP...

It's difficult to evoke a response until you are hurt. There were no cracks on BCCI president N. Srinivasan's forehead and none on the players involved, neither was there a stammer in the speech of parliamentarian cum IPL chief Rajiv Shukla. Their faces didn't exhibit remorse or at least a...

New Delhi: Sports Minister Ajay Maken on Tuesday said the onus lies with the BCCI as far as the IPL spotfixing is concerned and has asked the board to take prompt action in the interest of the millions of cricket fans in the country. "I am sure and wish that...